Federal Labor MP and opposition spokesperson for tourism Anthony Albanese has written an opinion piece for the Fairfax papers arguing against the repeal of parallel import restrictions (PIRs). In his... Read more

The winners of the 2016 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Pig the Fibber (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic) Fiction... Read more

Funding for literature has dropped to 2.7% of the Australia Council’s overall funding in 2015-16, according to the Australia Council’s recent annual report. In 2015-16, literature received $4.6m in funding... Read more

A number of New Zealand publishers and authors have received funding in the latest round of Copyright Licensing New Zealand’s (CLNZ) Contestable Fund. Established in 2014, the fund supports ‘strategic... Read more

Launched in Melbourne in 2013, Threekookaburras has a ‘low-cost, profit-sharing model that slots between self-publishers and the bigger, independent presses’. Founder Annie Hall spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher... Read more